July 12, 2001

Videogame researchers unite!

"Today we have the possibility to build a new field. We have a billion dollar industry with almost no basic research, we have the most fascinating cultural material to appear in a very long time, and we have the chance of uniting aesthetic, cultural and technical design aspects in a single discipline. ". Espen Aarseth, on Gamestudies.org, the first academic, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to computer game studies.